The Real Estate Thread: Buying/Selling/Tips/News

[bodysnatcher]

If you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[spike]

Doug’s spent years cultivating a chill existence. It’s all relative, homies.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Give me your wife, doug.

[Alex]

Give me your wife, doug.

Wow

[The Argonaut]

Is buying better than renting? Please tell the truth in this thread

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Is buying better than renting? Please tell the truth in this thread

Should I text you houses for sale in Albany again?

[doug rr]

Give me your wife, doug.

she's in LA until Friday..I'll let her know your inquiring

[doug rr]

Is buying better than renting? Please tell the truth in this thread

thodoks had a thread on this years ago

[Alex]

Is buying better than renting? Please tell the truth in this thread

thodoks had a thread on this years ago

RIP

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Now he has a kid and 3100 sq ft rancher.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Chud drove into a house.

[spike]

Is buying better than renting? Please tell the truth in this thread

It depends, but if you can get a monthly mortgage for around the same price as a rental, it’s better to go get that equity.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Especially if you plan on living in the area at least moderately long-term. And have a steady, dependable factory or non-factory job.

[spike]

And put on big boy pants every morning.

[The Argonaut]

But what about the responsibility for everything that goes wrong or breaks or wears and tears? And "losing" like $40k in cash in one fell swoop when you put down that down payment? Is it worth it?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Play around with some mortgage/home buying calculators and different scenarios, then compare to how much you spend on rent. Sure, there is some level of risk with buying but the pros outweigh it as long as buying is a realistic possibility for the person. Interest rates are kinda high right now, but if they drop you can always refinance.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

That's generally speaking. There are of course location related dynamics, but it's not like half of America is big cities with super high cost of living.

[spike]

But what about the responsibility for everything that goes wrong or breaks or wears and tears? And "losing" like $40k in cash in one fell swoop when you put down that down payment? Is it worth it?

if owning, you absolutely need an emergency fund of at least a few grand in case a furnace or something goes

[lennytheweedwhacker]

But what about the responsibility for everything that goes wrong or breaks or wears and tears? And "losing" like $40k in cash in one fell swoop when you put down that down payment? Is it worth it?

if owning, you absolutely need an emergency fund of at least a few grand in case a furnace or something goes

Or gambling addiction